To make my card I used paper from the WARM HEART 6X6 Paper Pad which I cut and glued to a CLOUD WHITE Card Stock card base. I would have liked to make the top piece of paper a bit longer and the bottom a bit shorter, but I didn't have enough of the text paper left and I really wanted to use it so I altered the sketch just a bit :) I stamped the mitten from SMITTEN MITTENS using BABY BLUE Dye Ink and die cut it using SMITTEN MITTENS Confetti Cuts. For the mitten cuff I cut a piece of white felt, I love the cozy texture that adds to the card!

I cut a circle from white glitter card stock using LACY SCALLOP CIRCLES Confetti Cuts in order to add the frosty, glittery feeling of real snow to the card. I also cut the snowflakes from the same glitter card stock using SNOWFLAKE TRIO Confetti Cuts. Behind the circle I added some textured white string, again adding a cozy feel to the card. I finished my card by adding some white enamel dots.

Monday, December 12, 2016

Hello, friends! I'm up on the Where Creativity Meets C9 blog today with a card featuring 2 wonderful Concord & 9th stamp sets, LET'S CHAT and HELLO LOVELY! I hope you'll hop over to the blog to see what I've created. Here's a sneak peek:

Friday, December 9, 2016

Hello peeps, welcome to the December Where Creativity Meets C9 Challenge! This month's theme is "WINTER"! If you don't have any specific "winter" themed Concord & 9th stamps, no worries, the design team will be sharing some very creative ideas to help you out!

To start my card I did some ink blending with distress inks on white card stock (Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky, and Faded Jeans), and then splattered the background with some water drops. Next I created my snowman. To do that I found 3 different sized circle stamps in 3 different Concord & 9th stamp sets. For the biggest circle I used LET'S CHAT, for the medium circle I used the solid backside of the orange slice from HUGS, and for the smallest circle I used BIRDIE BANNERS. I stamped the circles using white pigment ink and then I embossed with white embossing powder. For the snowman's "arms", I used a stem stamp from WILDFLOWER. It works perfectly for twig arms, don't you think?

I stamped the sentiment from HUGS with black ink. Next I stamped snowflakes from O CHRISTMAS TREE and embossed them with white embossing powder. I ran my Versamark ink pad along the bottom of the panel and added some white embossing powder to make "snow". I hand cut the snowman's hat and bow tie from card stock, those shapes are very easy to make! I added some tiny enamel dots for his eyes and buttons, and finished the card with some red twine.

My card just goes to show you that you don't need to have specific winter themed stamps to create a wintery card! I can't wait to see what you come up with for the challenge, I'm sure it will be GREAT! One winner will be invited
to be a guest designer with us, and another winner will be chosen
through random.org to win a $25.00 gift card to Concord & 9th! You have until the 29th of December to enter. Please pop over to the Where Creativity Meets C9 blog to see what the other design team members have created to inspire you, and don't forget to check us out on Instagram and Facebook!

My first card uses the beautiful new sentiment set YOU'RE SO along with the YOUR'E SO Confetti Cuts and BAR TAG LAYER Confetti Cuts.

I started my card by die cutting the plaid paper from WARM HEART 6X6 Paper Padwith LACY SCALLOP FRAMES Confetti Cuts. Next I used BAR TAG LAYER Confetti Cuts to die cut the tag from the center of the plaid paper. I placed those pieces on a white card base and stamped the words "you're a" and "friend" from YOU'RE SO, then I popped up the tag layer with foam dimensional tape. I die cut the word "fantastic" from white fun foam and again from a piece of white glitter card stock, gluing the words together for dimension. I die cut 2 flowers using WHOLE LOTTA THANKS Confetti Cuts, and several stems using LEAFY Confetti Cuts, and placed them on my tag.

For this next card I used a sentiment from OUTLINED and the new PEEKABOO TAG LAYER Confetti Cuts!

I started my card by doing some simple masking and ink blending. The background was done with Chipped Sapphire distress ink and Mustard Seed for the moon. I die cut the tag and stamped the front of it with Chipped Sapphire stars from BEST WITCHES and die cut some yellow stars using BEST WITCHES Confetti Cuts. The shooting star at the top of the tag was stamped and die cut using UNICORN WISHES and UNICORN WISHES Confetti Cuts.

When you peel back the perforated section on the top of the tag you see the sweet sentiment from OUTLINED, which I stamped using Chipped Sapphire ink. For the mice I used MOUSE MAIL, stamping the mice with brown ink and doing some simple watercolor with my Zig watercolor markers. I die cut the mice using MOUSE MAIL Confetti Cuts. Notice that I cut off the letter that the girl mouse is holding, this is really easy to do if you want a different look!

So there you have it, I hope you've enjoyed these ideas! Now be sure to hop along to see the rest of the wonderful projects that have been created just for YOU! Your next stop on the hop is LISA HENKE!

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Hello and welcome back to day 3 of the Reverse Confetti Countdown to Confetti! Are you excited about everything you've seen so far? Today we have a FUN new stamp and die set to share with you called FIGURE OF SPEECH!

Aren't these quotes FUN?! I love how they can be mixed and matched to say different things. For this card I die cut the center quote bubble from a piece of CLOUD WHITE Card Stock using FIGURE OF SPEECH Confetti Cuts. I also added a few stitch lines to this layer using EDGE ESSENTIALS Confetti Cuts. I stamped "you are the best" using ROYAL PURPLE Dye Ink on another piece of white card stock and popped up the die cut piece using foam tape over the stamped sentiment. I stamped the other sentiments using RC AQUA Dye Ink and BABY BLUE Dye Ink, and die cut them using FIGURE OF SPEECH Confetti Cuts.